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i just believe strongly in making your snake facts punchy and accurate
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Jan 31, 2024 05:02
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The actual New Testament parable of the sower has always felt like peak Jesus to me. The disciples challenge Jesus about why he just doesn't say what he means. He tells them that they're undeserving motherfuckers that don't even get why they're chosen and they're still going to get rewarded for it, while all of these other poor fucks are blind to everything and will lose it all. Makes you think
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Jan 31, 2024 05:25
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The Parable of the Sower and The Parable of the Grower
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Jan 31, 2024 13:45
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parable of the shower and it's about hygiene.
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Jan 31, 2024 18:21
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I only read fiction where real-life author Stephen King is a character in the fiction of the book. That means I only read about half of Stephen King's most recent output and the Princess Bride sequel book "Buttercup's Baby."
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Jan 31, 2024 18:25
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stephen king can watch in shock as i twerk across a major american boulevard
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Feb 1, 2024 09:11
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i had a very pleasing izakaya meal this evening. now i lay my head to sleep
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Feb 1, 2024 09:31
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https://twitter.com/DragonflyJonez/status/1754102895425781979 "'Who's a good boy' rear end cuisine" is inspired
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Feb 4, 2024 16:04
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The country that invented midwest "casserole" cuisine should probably not be throwing stones though.
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Feb 4, 2024 19:26
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Paracaidas posted:https://twitter.com/DragonflyJonez/status/1754102895425781979 Would, every dish and every frame.
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Feb 4, 2024 19:46
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Furnaceface posted:The country that invented midwest "casserole" cuisine should probably not be throwing stones though. You can't bring a minnesota hot dish within a mile of whatever deprivation tank cuisine this is
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Feb 4, 2024 22:15
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The pallet of an Alaskan malamute is the Home Depot trash your divorced uncle’s dog sleeps on (the dog loves the pallet and is happy)
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Feb 5, 2024 03:54
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can't believe the lapd disappeared killer mike for winning some grammy's
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Feb 5, 2024 19:35
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:can't believe the lapd disappeared killer mike for winning some grammy's Calling himself Killer Mike was probably a mistake in retrospect.
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Feb 5, 2024 19:41
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:can't believe the lapd disappeared killer mike for winning some grammy's He was in possession of criminally slick flows.
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Feb 5, 2024 19:41
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Deteriorata posted:Calling himself Killer Mike was probably a mistake in retrospect. he's a killer of the capitalist hegemony Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:He was in possession of criminally slick flows. officers saw him holding gold statuettes and assumed he stole them
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Feb 5, 2024 19:48
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Paracaidas posted:https://twitter.com/DragonflyJonez/status/1754102895425781979 man even as someone down to clown on our cuisine they managed to pick some guy who probably votes BNP every election as their example of "British Chinese food" like we have Chinese people here we kidnapped them from Hong Kong
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Feb 5, 2024 19:50
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Tesseraction posted:man even as someone down to clown on our cuisine they managed to pick some guy who probably votes BNP every election as their example of "British Chinese food" When I was in the U.K., every Chinese takeaway place topped your order with French fries, basically every type of noodle (regardless of size) was just called "Chow Mein," and everything was slathered in the same brown curry sauce you get at fish and chip places. It's a weird culinary evolution. Like American Chinese food, it is not really Chinese at all. Unlike American Chinese food, it is barely even pretending to be. *Note, this only applies to takeaway places. You can go to fancier sit-down restaurants in both the U.K. and America to get more authentic Chinese food.
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Feb 5, 2024 20:00
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god, fake american chinese food can be so goooood though. the slippery shrimp at yangchow is completely inauthentic and also supremely delicious. i could polish off an entire serving plate on my own does uk chinese share american chinese's preference for cornstarch and sweet sauces?
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Feb 5, 2024 20:05
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Every place also had "Chicken Balls" on the menu, which look like Sweet and Sour chicken without any Sweet and Sour sauce and using the same brown curry sauce instead, but I never actually ordered them to confirm. I still laugh a little decades latter when I think about how many times I heard "Chicken Balls" and "Cockfosters" over there.
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Feb 5, 2024 20:09
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:does uk chinese share american chinese's preference for cornstarch and sweet sauces? My experience was that they were much more into savory sauces and thick sauces. Lots of "British" sauces that you wouldn't find in American Chinese food like brown curry, satay sauce, or black bean sauce. Duck sauce and sweet and sour sauce were pretty consistent. They also weirdly had "American-style" BBQ sauce as a standard sauce for a ton of dishes. A lot of places had a sweet chili sauce that was really good and not very common in American Chinese food. They also give out puffy shrimp crackers as free sides instead of wontons or those crunchy fried sticks instead.
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Feb 5, 2024 20:13
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black bean sauce is really common in fake american chinese food i thought
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Feb 5, 2024 20:17
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Cease to Hope posted:black bean sauce is really common in fake american chinese food i thought There's types of black bean sauce on beef dishes in the U.S., but it was way more common in the U.K. for me. The black bean sauce in the U.K. was also a lot thicker and pastier than the gloopy version in the U.S. It's kind of a similar situation with satay sauce - you will sometimes see it in American Chinese takeout, but it was way more common in the U.K. You mostly see satay sauce in Thai food in the U.S.
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Feb 5, 2024 20:20
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:When I was in the U.K., every Chinese takeaway place topped your order with French fries, basically every type of noodle (regardless of size) was just called "Chow Mein," and everything was slathered in the same brown curry sauce you get at fish and chip places. Jesus Christ There's a lot of extremely cursed places on this hell isle but normally tourists don't encounter them. Where the hell did you go?
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Feb 5, 2024 21:42
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Tesseraction posted:Jesus Christ The main place I went was a Chinese takeaway in Holborn about 18 years ago. I lived there for two years, so it wasn't a tourist location or some place I sought out, it was just near my flat. But, calling all noodles "Chow Mein" and having "Chow Mein" be the default noodle type seemed to be everywhere I went in London. The U.K. Chinese food was weird, but not bad. The Mexican food and bacon situation was dire. Very good burgers, Indian food, kebab, and sausage rolls everywhere. Thank you for attending my Ted Talk about food I had in London two decades ago. Edit: Also, there was this Honeycomb candy from a vendor in Borough Market I used to get and haven't found anything exactly like it since. It was really good. Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 21:59 on Feb 5, 2024 |
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Feb 5, 2024 21:52
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oh Keir Starmer's constituency the kind of place that would elect him would have to be dire af I live an hour north of outer london and thankfully we have real Chinese and real Mexican places because we have people actually from those countries who likely saw the "British" versions and switched careers to cooking out of disgust
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Feb 5, 2024 21:58
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if you want good Chinese in London you need to head north and west to the Camden area and Chinatown, where after a certain point you need to speak Mandarin to get the benefit of the area but the areas before will cater to the gweilos
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Feb 5, 2024 22:00
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Tesseraction posted:oh Keir Starmer's constituency You guys gotta start cutting your bacon vertically and making it crispy, though. Maybe it's changed, but everywhere had a thick floppy disk of bacon.
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Feb 5, 2024 22:00
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look you visited a cursed hole in the cursed metropolis that is inner london, not everywhere is like that
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Feb 5, 2024 22:02
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Tesseraction posted:look you visited a cursed hole in the cursed metropolis that is inner london, not everywhere is like that The floppy bacon was everywhere in England and Scotland. It's the kind that comes with the full English and bacon sandwiches.
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Feb 5, 2024 22:05
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:The floppy bacon was everywhere in England and Scotland. It's the kind that comes with the full English and bacon sandwiches.  Not British floppy bacon but peameal bacon, the best bacon.
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Feb 5, 2024 22:55
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Tesseraction posted:look you visited a cursed hole in the cursed metropolis that is inner london, not everywhere is like that Do not trust the Leon, do not believe its lies
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Feb 5, 2024 23:05
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:
The UK is like 50 years behind the US then - I'm sure you could find some real old hole in walls or places trying to create a chinese mining town restaurant would say that
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Feb 5, 2024 23:28
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my boss's boss wants us back in the office tomorrow. internet and power are down with no eta on having them restored. i might be performatively sitting in my chair twiddling my thumbs for a good portion of this week
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Feb 5, 2024 23:33
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like forget the fact that most of the canyon roads we rely on are impassible, we literally can't do any work it's like an eyeroll worthy parody of office life
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Feb 5, 2024 23:34
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:my boss's boss wants us back in the office tomorrow. internet and power are down with no eta on having them restored. i might be performatively sitting in my chair twiddling my thumbs for a good portion of this week I almost felt bad for you, but then I remembered you probably have a smart phone
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Feb 5, 2024 23:38
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i have a smart phone now, but my office is in the middle of the mountains so you're lucky to get enough signal to get send and recieve sms texts, never mind cruising the web if our internet connection isn't back up i can't even send or receive phone calls. just completely useless
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Feb 6, 2024 00:08
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You are still part of the problem, my Muir friend
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Feb 6, 2024 00:26
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internet access in 2024 
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Feb 6, 2024 01:34
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rural australian chinese cuisine is a national treasure. give me that raspberry-red sweet and sour sauce. give me deep fried icecream and batter two inches thick on everything. give me life
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Feb 6, 2024 01:57
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